Dispar anthias
No sign-up needed. You can save notes on this device.
An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The peach fairy basslet is a fish that can change from female to male.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Dispar anthias
- Scientific name
- Pseudanthias dispar
- Japanese name
- アカネハナゴイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Pseudanthias
It lives on coral reefs from the Okinawa islands across the western and central Pacific.
How the Dispar anthias lives
It feeds on zooplankton. When it becomes male, its dorsal fin turns bright red and its pelvic fins grow long.
栃木県なかがわ水遊園Basic data
- Range
- Kume Island, Miyako Islands, Yaeyama Islands, western and central Pacific, and Christmas Island
Where the Dispar anthias has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アカネハナゴイ
- 简体中文
- 刺盖拟花鮨
- 繁體中文
- 刺蓋擬花鱸
- Español
- Anthias naranja
- Deutsch
- Sichel-Fahnenbarsch
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アカネハナゴイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 栃木県なかがわ水遊園 — アカネハナゴイChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
Report a mistakeRELATIVES
Others in Serranidae
MORE TO MEET
